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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-05-22
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[01] Greece can support 4-6 national private TV channels at present,
NCRTV meeting told
[01] Greece can support 4-6 national private TV channels at present,
NCRTV meeting told
The majority of participants in a meeting of Greece's broadcasting
regulator, the National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV), have
suggested in positions expressed during the meeting that Greece can only
support between four and six private television channels broadcasting
nationwide, sources said on Monday.
The meeting was held at the NCRTV in the presence of representatives
of the National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), the
state-owned public broadcaster ERT, the digital television signal
provider Digea and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
professor Christos Kapsalis.
This fully contradicts the position of private TV channel owners, who
say the digital TV spectrum can support between 9-12 channels at least.
Participants also repeatedly stressed that a tender to award TV
broadcasting licences must be held as soon as possible in order to
restore constitutional normalcy.
All those at the meeting, with the exception of Digea, said that the
current technology does not permit more than six private channels to
transmit in HD and SD modes simultaneously, given the need to make part
of the spectrum available for telecommunications by 2020-2022.
Digea representatives, on their part, stressed the need to introduce
DVB-T2 technology that will allow more television channels to transmit
at the same time. However, as was pointed out during the meeting, this
option cannot be implemented until at least four years have elapsed
since viewers will be required to purchase new decoders at reasonable
cost and new televisions that support the above technology.
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